Word Nerds

This book is fantastic! There are so many great ideas for teaching vocabulary in a fun way, but overall it gives great structure and clarity on how to integrate vocabulary instruction throughout your day. I have found myself coming back to this book multiple to look for ideas, strategies or refresh on the processes. I would recommend this for any teacher as a great resource!

I picked this book up on a whim. I hadn't heard anything about it, but was looking for a way to increase vocabulary comprehension in my classroom. I loved, loved, loved this book. So often I will buy a book and read it and think wow this is great but you didn't tell me how to make it work in MY classroom. Not this book! This book provides organizers, explicit instructions on games, classroom implementation, and a plethora of options to adapt to your classroom. Plus it provides information on differentiation for both primary and secondary elementary education classrooms. I have tried a few of these things in my classroom and my students loved them. I have not seen them so engaged and excited about vocabulary before. AND it does NOT require hours of preparation! This next year I am going to start at the beginning of the year and adapt it to all subject areas. I would recommend this to any teacher or parent! I can't sing enough praises for this book.

I bought this for my granddaughter’s 10th birthday. She doesn’t always enjoy being outside. I thought this might entice her to sit outside while using her IPod. So far she has loved it!

Vocabulary is sooo important. The author doesn't spend a whole lot of time convincing most of us what we already know, but the author does put it in terms that make it easy for us to set up strategies on how to teach vocabulary. One of my favorite parts of the book, "Some concepts are unfamiliar, and the student is faced with learning both the concept and the words that describe it at the same time..." The authors walk us through great ideas, strategies, and words of wisdom to help us create word nerds in our classroom. This book isn't just theory, it's what is being used in classrooms right now and is working.

I am absolutely IN LOVE with this book. The strategies, games and activities for helping students to learn vocabulary are research based, practical and FUN. I mostly identify with it because their students are very similar to the students I serve. So you know it works when they are working with high poverty kiddos as well. I can't wait to put these strategies to use. The vocabulary journals, the vocabulary planner and the lanyards will all be daily staples in my classroom from now on. I am really excited to see the results I get from using these strategies with my class.

Great ideas, but some seem to stretch the realities of the classroom.

I gave this book to all of our Title I supervisors. Our organization is a vendor of targeted Title I eligible students in non-public schools from K-12 in a large midwest city. Most students come from families living in poverty and many are faced with undesirable circumstances outside of school. Almost half of the students we serve are ELLs and this book will help them learn English. For our other students, the games and activities are most inviting. It's great to see excitement about learning words.

I bought this book because a fellow teacher mentioned it as helping him teach vocabulary. Teaching at a school with high numbers of ELLs, I needed some inspiration. I found it in this book!

Great for elementary language arts teachers. My students do very will with this method!

Fantastic book to refresh the classroom in vocabulary. Highly recommend this book it is very easy to read similar to the daily 5 read and has fantastic ideas!

Fantastic resource.

Good for older grades and a little bit for grade one